Gordon Bass

@GordonWBass

Creative Director. Author of The Last Great Australian Adventurer, Penguin Books Australia 2017.

Maplewood, New Jersey
Joined November 2012

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  1. 27 Dec 2018

    Jean-Jacques Savin is trying to cross the Atlantic in a big drifting barrel. You can track his (very, very slow) progress here:

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  2. 9 Dec 2018

    The world's cattle emit more greenhouse gases than India.

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  3. Retweeted

    All I'm saying is that would be nice if Donald Trump was mad at the guys who killed Jamal Khashoggi instead of the guys who killed Osama bin Laden.

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  4. 13 Nov 2018

    "Our phones drain the life out of a room." Why Jack White, Chris Rock and others are making audiences lock up their mobile phones (and why you should too) via

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  5. 11 Oct 2018

    These days when wi-fi and in-flight entertainment actually work on an flight I get that same rush as winning a scratch-off lottery ticket

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    5 Oct 2018

    Argo's David Snowden, SVP Group Communications, to present at the 2018 International Conference on Monday, October 8 at 10:15 a.m. in the Lone Star G room.

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  7. 28 Aug 2018

    A new rule for the round-the-world Volvo Ocean Race gave teams an incentive to include women. Here's what that means for one team, and for . Proud to have created this video with and the team at on behalf of .

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  8. 15 Aug 2018

    In the lower 48 states of the U.S., the furthest you can get from a road is 19 miles.

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  9. 7 Aug 2018

    When your kid discovers that your old roommate writes for the Simpsons.

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    1 Aug 2018

    In what other context are guests asked on to debate scientific facts? Why don't we hear from people claiming that the lights come on because of prayer rather than electricity; that the sun rises because bird song summons it, rather than because our planet orbits around it?

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    19 Jul 2018

    Ben und Elinore Carlin starteten heute vor 68 Jahren zur Atlantiküberquerung - in einem Schwimmauto mit dem passenden Namen "Half-Safe", einer Mischung aus Boot und Jeep. Sie kamen tatsächlich in Afrika an (aus dem -Archiv)

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  12. 16 Jul 2018

    This Manchurian Candidate reboot is pretty good so far.

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  13. 19 May 2018
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  14. 14 May 2018

    A huge thanks to for a lovely chat on about Ben Carlin, his journey around the world in the 1950s in the amphibious jeep Half Safe, and my book The Last Great Australian Adventurer.

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  15. Retweeted
    29 Apr 2018

    El matrimonio que dio la vuelta al mundo en un vehículo anfibio para su luna de miel

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  16. 3 May 2018

    The Longest Route You Can Sail in a Straight Line Without Hitting Land (or, how to travel 19,939.6 miles without steering) via

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  17. 24 Apr 2018

    Testing the Ford GPA amphibious jeep in March 1943 near the Rouge River factory complex in Michigan. Rushed into development during WWII, it was prone to sinking and production stopped after 18 months.

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  18. Retweeted
    20 Apr 2018

    The WA adventurer who circumnavigated the globe in an amphibious jeep

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  19. 19 Apr 2018

    You're already done one about a roundabout; finish decaying deco diving board, pick another landmark and you've got yerself the start of a Swindon oratorio.

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  20. 16 Apr 2018
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